Chapter 23
Jiang Rong did not continue to dwell on it. Shen Jianye took her to a restaurant. It was called a restaurant, but it was more like someone else's home. It was the kind of place she would never dare to come to alone.
Shen Jianye was quite familiar with the place, and even the waiter was there bending over to greet him: "Mr. Shen."
Shen Jianye waved his hand, took Jiang Rong from the quiet corridor to a private room, pulled out a stool and asked Jiang Rong to sit down first.
As soon as they sat down, the waiter brought several plates of small dishes to the table, and then closed the door considerately. Jiang Rong licked her lips nervously and looked around cautiously. She was just outside and was afraid that her inexperienced appearance would embarrass Shen Jianye, so Jiang Rong had been holding back from looking around.
But as soon as she entered the house, Jiang Rong was no longer polite.
This was the first time she had seen such a place. It was just like the scene in a TV series, and it was completely different from any restaurant she had ever visited before.
Shen Jianye thought Jiang Rong was hungry, so he pushed the small tomato on the table in front of Jiang Rong: “Try it.”
Jiang Rong pursed her lips and said, "After all, there are three of us. Wouldn't it be a bad idea for me to eat first?"
Shen Jianye raised his eyebrows and took two pairs of chopsticks from the drawer: “Then let’s eat first, after we finish eating, won’t he know that there is this dish?”
Jiang Rong was convinced, and the peeled small tomato soaked in yellow sugar juice looked very tempting indeed.
Shen Jianye ate two chopsticks, then sat there and looked at his phone for a while. Then, looking at Jiang Rong's curved eyes, he suddenly asked, "Are you happy with the make-up class today?"
Jiang Rong nodded, swallowed the tomato in her mouth, and couldn't help saying, "The teacher is so nice to us. And the test paper she gave me was the same one they had just done in the classroom."
"But every family has its own problems. The teacher's wife has Alzheimer's disease."
Shen Jianye nodded slightly: “Then in a few days during the Mid-Autumn Festival, if they don’t go home, let’s go find them and have dinner together?”
Jiang Rong's eyes widened: "Is it okay?"
Shen Jianye smiled slightly: “Of course.”
Jiang Rong's mood became visibly happier, but Shen Jianye asked again: "Since tutoring is fun, why do you seem so unhappy?"
"Xiao Min said that there's something wrong with your relationship with that friend."
Shen Jianye asked naturally, and Jiang Rong froze when she heard the question. She had never expected Shen Jianye to be so sharp, but...
Shen Jianye saw her concerns and calmly dispelled them: “My cousin just asked, it’s still some distance to get here, and as for this box, the sound insulation is very good, no one outside will hear it, and besides, am I not your brother?”
Jiang Rong pursed her lips. It was probably the first time she felt the warmth of her family from Shen Jianye. She also imagined herself to be like those children with families. Thinking that Shen Jianye was now supporting her and bringing her to his side, Jiang Rong also tried to take a step forward: “We are not friends.”
After the first sentence was said, the rest came naturally: "When the tutoring session was over, she suddenly told me that she knew about my situation."
Shen Jianye raised his eyebrows slightly. He roughly guessed that he knew something. He tapped his slender fingers on the table: "Are you just afraid that other people will know?"
Jiang Rong didn't expect Shen Jianye to be so perceptive. She pursed her lips and nodded. This was indeed what she was afraid of. Shen Jianye ate the last two tomatoes on the plate, asked someone to remove the plate, and then slowly spoke: "Are you afraid that the little girl we met that day would know?"
Jiang Rong was a little conflicted, but finally nodded. If others knew, they would know. Their relationship was not that good to begin with, and they were not that close. Even if they knew, it would be no different from the current situation.
After all, I'm used to it.
But Shen Jianye smiled and said, “Look, I know, I don’t care at all. I even think that your physique is a blessing for me.”
"And Teacher Yang didn't say anything, right?"
Jiang Rong nodded slightly, and Shen Jianye smiled: "Then maybe your friends don't care?"
"After all, everything has happened."
Instead of begging for others' kindness, it is better to break out of the cage that imprisons yourself.
Shen Jianye said seriously: “If you are good friends, you should let her make the choice.”
Jiang Rong fell silent. In the silence, Jiang Cheng'an pushed open the door, cursing, "I'm speechless. The quality of the people where you live is so worrying. My car was almost scratched by a little brat."
Noticing Jiang Rong's presence, Jiang Cheng'an changed the subject: "But I didn't say that the little beauty has bad qualities. What's your name?"
Shen Jianye patted the seat beside him: “Her name is Jiang Rong, please sit down first, then the dishes will be served.”
After he finished speaking, he pressed the button and signaled the waiter to serve the dishes, while Jiang Rong smiled awkwardly, her mind full of the method Shen Jianye told her, and she didn’t care what Jiang Chengan said at all.
She was a little hesitant holding the phone, but after thinking about it, she put it back in her pocket and decided to call after dinner. She had nothing to do in the afternoon anyway, and it was dinner time, so it was not a good time to call.
While thinking, a clear gaze was fixed on her. Jiang Rong raised her eyes and looked at the owner of the gaze: "Then, Manager, what is this person's name?"
Shen Jianye was a little helpless: “Just call me brother, he is not an outsider, his name is Jiang Chengan.”
Jiang Rong thought quickly, and the next second she said, "Hello, Brother Cheng'an."
Jiang Chengan's eyes were almost curved into crescents, and he looked worthless: "Hello, Sister Jiang Rong, but how did you two meet?"
He looked at Shen Jianye with a playful look. Shen Jianye saw what he meant at a glance and rolled his eyes unhappily. Before Jiang Rong could explain, he answered first: "That's how we met. Since you call me sister, shouldn't you, as a brother, give me a gift?"
Jiang Chengan didn't hesitate and took out the car keys from his pocket without any hesitation: "Then this car is for you. I'll ask the butler to drive it over later."
Jiang Rong was frightened like a frightened little rabbit, and quickly shook her head to refuse. Shen Jianye said helplessly beside her: "Why open it? I'm not even an adult yet."
Jiang Chengan thought for a moment, then took off the watch from his wrist: "Then this is for you."
Jiang Rong wanted to refuse, but Shen Jianye threw it directly into her arms, and then followed up with a sentence: “Okay, the food is here.”
As soon as the voice fell, the door was opened. Jiang Rong could only put the watch into her pocket first. Although she didn't know what made this watch so expensive, it must be very expensive. She would ask Shen Jianye when she got back.
She buried her head in her food while the two of them started chatting. Probably because she was there, Jiang Chengan didn't say some things directly, but just asked in a different way: "But you really aren't going back?"
Shen Jianye’s tone was still gentle: “Why go back? It’s not like you don’t know. Besides, what kind of lobbying are you doing for them?”
Jiang Chengan nodded in agreement: "That's right, I also came to play with you secretly. If you need anything, tell me."
Jiang Rong looked around with her big eyes and continued to stuff her food into her mouth, but her eyes were full of curiosity. Jiang Chengan couldn't help but tease, "Xiao Jiang, do you know how we met?"
Jiang Rong tilted her head: "Home?"
Jiang Chengan laughed even louder: "You are right."
"But we didn't get along in the past. It all started in high school, about ten years ago."
Jiang Rong finally felt the age gap between herself and Shen Jianye. She picked up a piece of meat and chewed it while listening to Jiang Chengan say, "You don't know, Shen Jianye used to be a bad boy."
Jiang Rong's eyes widened. Jiang Cheng'an asked with a smile, "Do you find it incredible? Do you think I should be the bad guy?"
Shen Jianye said helplessly beside him: "He has never been a bad person. At best, he has always been a playboy."
"Okay, hurry up and eat. Even food can't fill your mouth."
Jiang Chengan winked at Jiang Rong. While Shen Jianye was in the bathroom, he quietly added Jiang Rong as a friend and said, "You must be careful of that hypocritical Shen Jianye. He is not a good person."
Jiang Rong curled her lips and said, "I think he is a very good person."
Seeing that the two people had different opinions, Jiang Rong was about to put away her phone, but Jiang Chengan quickly changed his words: “Good man, good man, Shen Jianye is a very good man.”
The two of them added each other as friends, and left after dinner. Jiang Rong was a little surprised, so she asked Shen Jianye, "Brother Cheng'an, are you just here for dinner?"
Shen Jianye raised the corner of his mouth slightly: “He mainly came to see if I died outside.”
Jiang Rong was a little confused: "Aren't you good friends?"
Shen Jianye thought for a moment: “No, our relationship is not that good.”
"How can adults have so many good friends?" He started the electric scooter with his eyes curved.
Jiang Rong didn't quite understand. She was about to become an adult, but it seemed that she really didn't have many good friends.
hiss.
Shen Jianye looked at her confused look, not knowing what her little head was thinking about, and nodded helplessly: "Hurry up and get in the car, don't forget to find your good friend."
Jiang Rong came back to her senses, held the phone and said "oh" twice, and as soon as she got home, she took the phone to call Lin Yue. She had imagined that scene several times in her mind, but when they were face to face and the call was connected, Jiang Rong was stuck.
Lin Yue's tone was full of surprise: "Jiang Rong, why are you calling me?"
"What's up?"
Jiang Rong licked her dry lips. She was about to speak, but she backed off: "Actually..."
The sound of Shen Jianye pouring water came from outside the room. Jiang Rong thought about it and said with her eyes closed: “Actually, I told you before that we are just deskmates because…”
She told him everything about herself, especially about her parents and adoptive father. As expected, Li Tong only knew these things. Jiang Rong didn't tell anyone about the private matters.
But this was enough to make her hate herself.
Jiang Rong pursed her lips again and asked, "Do you think we are friends now?"
If Lin Yue said that he didn't think so, it would be considered a decent breakup.
Jiang Rong closed her eyes, but this undoubtedly made the sound coming from the microphone clearer. She seemed to hear Lin Yue's breathing. Just when Jiang Rong gave up on herself and was about to hang up, Lin Yue on the other end of the phone said with a distorted voice, but it was obvious that she was smiling: "I'm very happy that you are willing to tell me so much. Do you know what my father does?"
Jiang Rong followed her words and asked curiously, "What do you do?"
Lin Yue didn't say it directly, but asked with a smile: "Do you want to come to my house to play with me?"
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